Monthly Archives: December 2018

Welcome back to Fantasy Friday where you will find reviews of classic and new books! I love how this first book of The Pendragon Cycle begins: an unnamed chronicler remembers the lost land of Atlantis and determines to tell of …Continue reading →

“There is an enemy. There is an intelligent, active, malign force working against us. Step one is to recognize this. This recognition alone is enormously powerful. It saved my life, and it will save yours.” – Steven Pressfield, Do the …Continue reading →

Krysta from Pages Unbound Reviews has a wonderful post, The Value of Reading Slowly. In our crazed world where many cannot exist below the speed of frantic, Krysta offers a breath of fresh air by telling readers to take a …Continue reading →

“Of course, you don’t suppose, do you, that you wrote all that book yourself?” I love this essay from Trudy G. Shaw in which she speaks of J. R. R. Tolkien’s continued sense he was not writing The Lord of …Continue reading →

If you have a lot of plot bunnies that you want to use but which are rather scattered right now, check out this wonderful article from GoTeenWriters about how to connect all those great scenes that do not yet fit …Continue reading →

From early days, man defined himself and his world through stories. The mind and heart travel further along their hidden roads and secret passageways than a body does down the modern superhighway. The places reached are brighter and darker than …Continue reading →

An excerpt from Chosen: The Journeys of Bilbo and Frodo of the Shire: Gandalf recounts in the unfinished tale “The Quest of Erebor” how the twin threats of Sauron and Smaug greatly troubled him. He thinks a trip to the …Continue reading →

Welcome to Fantasy Friday where you will find reviews of classic and new books! “In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.” So begins one of the most famous tales in all literature, beloved by children and adults …Continue reading →